National Institute of Mental Health — To expedite research on brain disorders, the National Institutes of Health is shifting from a limited funding role to coordinating a Web-based resource for sharing post-mortem brain tissue. Under a NIH NeuroBioBank initiative, five brain banks will begin collaborating in a tissue sharing network for the neuroscience community. “Instead […]
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Star Explosion
A supernova was discovered in the night sky of London on January 23, 2014. NASA says, “A supernova is the explosion of a star. It is the largest explosion that takes place in space.” The explosion was first discovered by students and their teacher Steve Fossey at the University College London. “It was a surreal […]
Wake Up In Space
A spaceship launched 10 years ago is approaching its target — a comet. A landing unit will harpoon itself to the surface. Comets are among the most beautiful and least understood nomads of the night sky. To date, half a dozen of these most heavenly of heavenly bodies have been visited by spacecraft in an […]
Cheese: Toe, Armpit, Belly Button and Mouth Bacteria
The “Grow Your Own… Life After Nature exhibition,” is an exhibit where cheeses are created using “microbial sketches” created with bacteria samples from various people’s body parts. Each cheese ends up smelling like the donor’s body odor. “I’m really excited about things that sometimes are a little bit gross, a little bit disgusting,” microbiologist Christina […]
Record Breaking Cold Weather and Global Warming
Since we began studying global warming, there has been one thing all scientists could agree on — man-made warming of the Earth will cause an increase in extreme weather events. We are not saying that the Earth’s temperature is just going to rise. In general, as energy is added to a system, the fluctuations in […]
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Hottest Year On Record
AUSTRALIA — Data collected and analyzed by the Bureau of Meteorology show that 2013 was Australia’s warmest year on record while rainfall was slightly below average nationally. Summer 2012–13 was the warmest on record nationally, spring was also the warmest on record and winter the third warmest Overall, 2013 was Australia’s warmest year on record: […]
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Interstellar Overdrive
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft officially is the first human-made object to venture into interstellar space. The 36-year-old probe is about 12 billion miles (19 billion kilometers) from our sun. New and unexpected data indicate Voyager 1 has been traveling for about one year through plasma, or ionized gas, present in the space between stars. Voyager […]
Dating The Calendar
The history of calendars goes back thousands of years. The oldest calendar is a Lunar Calendar found in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, from 8,000 BC. The modern day calendar is known as the Gregorian calendar. This calendar is a refinement made in 1582 to the Julian calendar to help Easter align with the time of the year […]
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Tagged dates, days, Gregorian calendar, leap year, New Year, New Year's Day, years
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The *White Army* Militia Marches
SOUTH SUDAN, AFRICA — A group of armed militants is marching to fight in the growing crisis in South Sudan. The White Army is named from the white ash used to cover their bodies. They are a group of disgruntled young and under-employed men. The Washington Post reports, “Twenty-five thousand young men who make up […]
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Tagged army, civil war, civil wars, conflicts, ethnic wars, fighting, hostilities, Nuer, South Sudan, Sudan, tribal, white army, white ash
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International Year of Crystallography
NEW YORK, NY — The United Nations has declared 2014 to be the year of crystallography. The International Year of Crystallography (IYCr2014) will be launched during an opening ceremony to be held on 20 and 21 January 2014 at UNESCO Headquarters (Paris). This international launch will be a showcase for crystallography and crystallographers, featuring eminent […]
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Tagged biological mechanisms, crystallography, crystals, minerals, rocks, technology
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